PeelerSheila you are an inspiration.

I'm no expert on this, maybe if you feel ok work up a little to the next level but in incremental steps.

Anyway congratulations! Keep up the good work!

Yoo that's amazing peeler! You did it! Personally, I'd stick at the current level for maybe a few days to a week, but that's just me. Perhaps you might be one of the people that needs an ever increasing (but doable) challenge to stay engaged?

Smashing it!!! You should be so proud of yourself! Love it and loving your journey! 💜😍

You're honestly an inspiration given everything else you need to wrangle in your life!! I envy being able to stick to a regimen. What does the intermediate level vs Something Different look like?

Awesome! Proud of you sis. You've helped me maintain my routine as well. 10k will be walked today, I did nearly 5 at work so it's just another hour.

My advice is to keep doing what you can make into a habit but you do you.

Wait, you're supposed to cut that stuff? I just assumed other people had special dwarf varieties that were better behaved than my rampant tree climbing kikuyu.

It's like a really big flat bonsai!

I wish my neighbour would use shears instead of his mega loud mower. Still takes him a few hours though.

He must be drowning in painkillers for his knees and back to keep tolerating that

congestive perhaps

and lot of hugs

@landsharkkidd @bot001 for what? Freedom of speech and academic, professionalism?

expertly placed and shaped rice!

That looks really delicious. Can you come and be my cook for a while?

I just finished my dins and somehow this photo made me hungry again. Very nice 👍

My workplace forgot to issue me a camera and I haven't bothered to push the issue. Maybe it's time for your camera to break and for IT to drag their heels on a replacement.

I'd activate my avatar (this is in Teams, not sure if other apps have similar)

My old team had 5pm stand-up's.

It’s a wealthy area, gentrified decades ago. You’re not gonna find cheap rent there. Try for the surrounding areas or further out.

I must admit I read that as 'cat problems' the first time - and got increasingly concerned when I read the bit about 'under warranty' and 'dropping it' - until I got to the bit about driving! Upon re-reading, it made a lot more sense.

What was the problem in the end?

Ooh hope it's nothing too serious. Lots of sniffles going around.

Garlic. I buy Gourmet Garden garlic in a tube. 👍

I assume most people know this; to prevent a pot from boiling over, put a wooden spoon across the top. No more messy stoves!!

Quirky kitchen thing : I store tomato sauce in cupboard but BBQ sauce is in the fridge. What’s that about ? lol.

My mum brought me up with the habit of always laying out a piece of newspaper or other unneeded paper (eg paper bag torn flat) on the bench before food prep. You'd pile all the trimmings, peelings etc on that as you go (e.g. peeling the onion or taking out the root over the paper, or doing it on the chopping board then immediately sweeping the bits onto the paper without necessarily having to lift the whole board). Then at the end you just package up the waste paper and put the whole lot directly into the bin/compost. Uses up waste paper, doesn't take up chopping board space, self contained, doesn't require an open bin (and all the smells associated with it).

My mum would quiver at how I cut onions now, but I picked this up from a housemate: I cut the onion in half, skin on, and then peel it and remove the root. It is 500000% easier than peeling a whole, intact onion.

I also use my knife to peel the onion especially as I grew up with shitty onions where the top half of a layer would be papery and the other half fleshy, so I'd use the knife to score off the papery bit and discard it.

Thank you for your tips - I did not know that about the green part of garlic and will definitely chuck that out next time I come across them!

Eggs. I peel boiled eggs in water.

I cut the ends off onion (without cutting in half first) and spend 5 minutes trying to peel it in one clean piece.

5% of the time it works 100% of the time.

Punch a hole in the "blunter" end of the egg before you boil it. Can just use a tack to do it. The water gets in between the shell and the white and makes peeling so much easier.

Onions, I peel by hand (it's meditative for me, even if impractical lol), I pull off the dangly root bits, chop the top off and then chop in half. Can slice and dice from the halves, and then discard the root. I like leaving it on as it keeps the onion together when dicing heh
If you are sensitive to onion (as in you get tear-gassed), I found wrapping a wet facewasher or teatowel around your mouth and nose helps heaps.

Never knew the garlic thing! Will try it next time!

I use a small knife to chop out the stem of a capsicum, then pull it out. I then fill up the capsicum with water and wash out the seeds, then chop up. I just hate the seeds sticking everywhere.

Home pizza (pita bread/pizza base), I keep the cheese and heavier ingredients mostly at the edges, with a little bit in near the centre - this ensures the cheese browns and the middle is cooked without being soggy.

If you have good chef knives (i have one lol), wash and dry it immediately after use - keeps it from getting weird and rusty.

that's all I can think of atm

Whenever you have to crack an egg, whether it's boiled or not. Always crack it on a flat service. At least with raw eggs if you crack it on an edge it'll concave in and you'll get more shell pieces that way.

Onions, you shouldn't cut the base if you don't want to cry. But don't cut off the base if you're dicing onions, because it's easier that way.

Isn't that wasteful? Every extra paper towel you use has an environmental impact. Even if they're recycled, there's still a substantial energy and water cost.

And feel the sky tumbling down

It is of interest that the only reason most people cite for not participating here, is the user interface of the platform and that it takes precedence over the familiarity and pleasure of interactions with the long-standing group of DT users who are here now.

…If that makes sense

I took a peek at the the Reddit DT a couple of days back. Didn’t recognise half the usernames and not many posts. On a good day the DT could get over 1000 posts. Sad what it’s become but glad we have this. Yes Lemmy is not as visually appealing as Reddit but that’s not the reason I use Reddit, it’s for the community.

His love affair with the letter X is wild. I'm not calling Twitter X, that's embarrassing. What are tweets called? Exs? Retweets are Ohs? Like...

Edit: Okay so I was shitposting and didn't see this until now.

Zuck trademarked 'X' a few years ago. Elmo might have a nice legal battle at his hands shortly.

The ones on my route think they're doing Targa! Except occasionally on Bell St, where I could get out and run alongside it from sheer boredom at the inching along.

kramer driving the bus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmlCAhrAWYw

Somehow Plenty Road never makes it into any of the tourism campaigns, not sure why.

This is not a problem isolated to technology. In any market with a monopoly, without competitive pressures there's no reason for companies to maintain and improve their products.

Have you had anything to drink tonight sir?

Praise be.

Once babies acquire a taste for human flesh you have continue feeding it to them.

Not the best solution to the homeless situation, but a solution nonetheless.

I got mine then I got my pitiful tax refund. Not the best week.

I expect to say the same when the winter Q elec arrives

Remember when your mum said "put a jumper on" ?

I saw my gas bill and noticed the jump even though my gas use is minimal.

My energy bill I’m not going to be happy seeing it I think

Not enough money to pay for leases or employees, enough money to pay for a rebrand. Business genius.

A worthy successor to Trump in the "he did WHAT" category.

He's a joke. While I'm not a huge fan of zuck either, I enjoy the fact that threads is doing well. Twitter can become a right wing incel zone and most of us won't care or notice by the time it does.

Might be hard for him to implement without getting sued

I’ve just come back from a nap myself and made dinner and ate it.

Have a good one!

I did my collapsing early on today - woke up at 9:30am and didn't start doing any work until 4:30pm today because my brain was too fried to be utilised. My psychologist told me about "pacing" and how over time your capacity can recover and I'm like goddammit I can't see how that would actually work - I think I would just sleep more and more and more tbh. I need so much recovery.

Mary-hwoo-wah-nah has been life changing for my cptsd - not a fix, but a definite improvement. Would have a headstone instead of a lemmy-account without it tbh. just need to get a therapist lol

Thank you for the recc! Giving it a listen now 🤗💜💜😍

they feel down. give them a pep talk.

This is gross, but if it was the last timtam and just a lick, I’d probably wash it and eat it anyway. Or else cut that bit off.

I would eat the tim tam.

Marking their territory. Bad kitty!

I actually enjoy ironing, but my wife doesn’t, and our ironing board in Melbourne is covered with her junk so I can’t actually use it. I just avoid wearing stuff that needs ironing most of the time in Melbourne. I iron my clothes in Sydney, though.

Haven't ironed anything in like... 4 years. That was for a wedding.

I try to buy everything to be non iron and when washing and drying try to smooth as much as possible

The last thing I ironed was forty large sheets of calligraphy paper ... 😂

I do not have an ironing board, nor an iron. The last time I wore something that had been ironed, it was my HS uniform, 15 years ago.

I work four days and it is great. I hope everyone else gets to experience the pleasure.

If you're sick you should definitely be going to an actual people hospital

Your wish has been granted. 🌞

There are some savages out there who, believe it or not, put their toasters AWAY in a CUPBOARD, EVERY SINGLE TIME after they use it. I have resolved that I will never again share a house with such a demented person if I ever have a choice about it

They may have had one, but it broke and was discarded. They might even have been hoping you'd bring one with you. They do catch on fire easily, so this is a reasonable hypothesis. You could if you wished acquire one from Kmart or Ikea or Appliances Online or whatever - they are cheap and designed to break easily and be replaced. Capitalism in action. So I didn't replace mine the last time it broke, and now use the grill cos I was feeling ornery. Also, people do change the settings to their own personal preferences AND DON"T CHANGE THEM BACK - which is major uncivilised conduct in a shared kitchen. You might like to acquire one and keep it in your room to protect the settings you prefer. Just clean out the crumb tray regularly so it doesn't catch fire.

If you dont locate a toaster
Slap those slices under the grill
Watch and turn them, don't roast-em
Hope that helps you get your fill

If it isn't on a kitchen bench, they laid it out wrong.